I’m still trying to figure out hashes. My array consists of two elements, the
first is a filename and the second is a field in the file. So it looks like
this:
File1 UserID
File1 TextID
File1 Field1
File2 UserID
File2 TextID
File2 Field1
File2 Field2
I have another array that has the same list only it is a complete list of what
the array SHOULD consist of. I’m trying to match the two arrays so I can find
out if a File coming in is missing a field. So if the SHOULD array has all
three fields in File1 but it has Four fields for File2, I want to know that in
the array coming in File2 is missing a field.
I’m looking at hashes since that was suggested but the problem I have is that
it looks like the Key in a hash has to be unique and it my case it won’t be
unless I reverse the key value pairs and I’m not sure that would give me what I
want.
Iterating through the arrays doesn’t help because eventually the file/field
pairs get mixed up and the program tells me that all sorts of fields are
missing. Am I on the right track?
What I want to happen is that the program looks through the ArrayComingIn,
matches the File/Field names to the ShouldcontainFields array and prints out
the filename and fields in the Should array that are missing in the
ArrayComingIn.
Thanks,
dave
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